OECD’s PISA Study - Share of Rents from National Resources in National Income
1. Share of rents from national resources in national income and student performance
PISA performance in mathematics (score points)
650
Average: 6.02%
Shanghai-China
600
Singapore
Hong Kong-China
Korea
550
Finland
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Japan Netherlands Canada
Macao-China
New Zealand Australia
Belgium Germany
Estonia
Iceland Norway
Denmark
Slovenia
Austria Slovak Republic
France 500
Hungary SwedenPoland
United Kingdom
Luxembourg Czech Republic
Ireland United States
Portugal Latvia
SpainItaly
Armenia Lithuania Russian Federation
Greece
Malta Croatia
Average: 450 score points
Israel
Turkey
Serbia Ukraine
450
Cyprus
Bosnia and Herzegovina Azerbaijan
Lebanon Bulgaria Chile United Arab Emirates
Uruguay Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago
Mauritius Romania
Thailand Kazakhstan
Malaysia
Costa Rica Iran, Islamic Rep.
Montenegro Bahrain
Moldova Argentina
400
Algeria
Jordan Brazil
Colombia Egypt, Arab Rep. Syrian Arab Republic Oman
Georgia Qatar
Albania
Tunisia Indonesia Peru
Panama Botswana
Saudi Arabia
350
El Salvador
Kyrgyzstan
Ghana
300
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Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Note: Data for countries marked in red have been substituted by student performance in the TIMSS 2007 assessment of 8th grade mathematics.
The correlation between the PISA mathematics score and the TIMSS 2007 Grade 8 mathematics score across 28 countries that participated both PISA and TIMSS is 0.90
The linear transformation of data from TIMSS was based on the formula: PISA estimate = 0.8221 * TIMSS score + 65.77
The correlation between the share of national resource rents in GDP and performance on PISA is -0.433 and statistically significant at the 99.9% confidence level
The correlation remains statistically significant at the 99.7% confidence level even after accounting for differernces in national income.
The relationship also holds when excluding countries in which more than 10% of GDP is accounted for by national resource rents.